omniscient

• “Rob, I would never write anything in omniscient POV.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Finding your inner voice

• “Her unironic use of the n-word (in omniscient narration, not spoken by a character) in the opening pages of The Violent Bear It Away should make anyone this side of Strom Thurmond squirm, something she seems to have realized, since it was edited out of later editions.”

  Signature Elements

• “Point of view issues: the first-person omniscient is extremely difficult to carry off without making me run away, far away, very quickly.”

  Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

• “It's Holmes from his own point of view (the book is in omniscient, but it stays tightly tied to his point of view most of the time, and some passages are told as if from his own pen) and it's actually done well, something I'm not sure I've ever seen before.”

  "I cannot say with any degree of certainty. I really cannot say."

• “I suppose third omniscient is easier when you’re writing something with so large a scope.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Which Person Comes First?

• “So-called omniscient narration, he argues, is "almost impossible": narrative about a character tends to "take on his or her way of thinking and speaking.”

  Newsweek: Required Reading

• “When used in narrative, it often indicates a POV shift from close third to omniscient, that is when 'they' includes the POV character.”

  and onwards

• “Janes chooses to write from what may be called the omniscient viewpoint.”

  Archive 2004-11-01

• “Thus Mr. Wilder begins his new novel, speaking in the voice of Truth, or History, sometimes called the omniscient author.”

  What's Your Inner Reality?

• “So Eugene Wigner who helped to build the Atomic Bomb, one of the founders of the quantum theory, in his autobiography said this is the proof of the existence of some kind of omniscient being i.e. God.”

  The Huffington Post: Deepak Chopra: Michio Kaku Interview By Deepak Chopra

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